I was an old man by the time I took that walk to the Public… - William Saroyan

" "
I was an old man by the time I took that walk to the Public Library in San Francisco, because the years between birth and twenty are the years in which the soul travels farthest and swiftest.

William Saroyan

Sources available for members. Sign up free to see where this quote comes from

English

Collect this quote

About William Saroyan

William Saroyan (31 August 1908 – 18 May 1981) was an Armenian American author, famous for his novel The Human Comedy (1943) and other works dealing with the comedies and tragedies of everyday existence.

Biography information from Wikiquote

All quotes from William Saroyan Similar Quotes by other Originators

Originators like William Saroyan:

Ernest Hemingway John Steinbeck Saul Bellow William Faulkner Anton Chekhov

Additional quotes by William Saroyan

The role of art is to make a world which can be inhabited.

When you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

The boy on the Oakland porch goes to sleep upon the universe of ice and wakes up and remembers the death of his father and mother, and sees the sun.

I was an old man by the time I took that walk to the Public Library in San Francisco, because the years between birth and twenty are the years in whi… - William Saroyan

About William Saroyan

Additional quotes by William Saroyan